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North Macedonia, Central Macedonia
Allchar mine, Kavadarci
Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: realgar, orpiment, lorandite, stibnite, marcasite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Unique As-Sb-Tl deposit at Alsar, the world locality for lorandite, mined for arsenic and antimony to the 1910s
World-famous in mineralogy as the type locality of lorandite and other thallium species.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
thallium and arsenic mineralsCollapsing adits
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